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Hardball is a variation of the buddy cop genre that focused on two cops, Charlie "C.B." Battles (John Ashton) and Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski (Richard Tyson). Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran cop who is forced to take a desk job or retire. Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year-old hotshot Kaczierowski who follows his own set of rules when dealing with criminals. The pair are soon at odds over their respective methods of law enforcement.

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Rob Bowman (filmmaker)
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Rob Stanton Bowman is an American film director and producer. He grew up around film and television production, and developed an interest in the field because of the work of his father and he is an executive producer and director for the comedy-drama Castle. Bowman has directed four films, Airborne, The X-Files, Reign of Fire. Bowman grew up around film and television production and his father, Chuck Bowman, is a filmmaker who became active in the industry when Rob was an adolescent. Bowman first became fascinated with the process of filmmaking when he saw The Wizard of Oz as a child, growing up, he watched his father make commercials and documentaries, often acting as an assistant crew member. Bowman said that conversations with his father enabled him to see how the work of a filmmaking crew becomes invisible when the film is made. He said, what remains are the emotions and the drama of the story, in his late teens, he moved to Utah, where he became a ski bum, and worked as a bartender. After writing, producing and directing a story for a production class at the University of Utah. It became as clear to me as a Fourth of July fireworks display that was where my passion was, Bowman moved to Los Angeles, and got a job at Stephen Cannell Productions, starting in the mail room. He took film classes, and studied film directors, developing a sense of his own personal style and he became fascinated with how each director used the same tools, but arrived at a unique aesthetic. He said, I learned early on that to be successful as a director, otherwise, why hire one person over another. He worked for Cannell for over two years, observing the production of over 400 hours of television, around age 20, he wrote a mission statement for himself, committing himself to strive for excellence in filmmaking. Bowman started directing for television while doing second unit work for Stephen Cannell Productions in 1982, after leaving Cannells company in 1987, he sent out videos of his work, looking for a job. Impressed by one of Bowmans Stringray episodes, producer Robert H. Justman hired him to direct for Star Trek, Bowman was only 27 years old at the time, and in his first meeting with executive producer Rick Berman, Berman mistook him for the pizza delivery boy. He was originally slated to direct the 10th episode of Star Treks first season and this gave Bowman the opportunity to direct the fourth episode of the season, Where No One Has Gone Before. Bowman investigated the two weeks early to begin prepping the episode. Bowman told Starlog magazine, Walking through those empty sets was very intimidating for me, I kept asking myself how I was going to do justice to these sets, tell the story and still get the performances from the cast. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was so impressed with the dailies for the episode, immediately following directing Where No One Has Gone Before, Bowman directed an episode of the Fox Broadcasting Companys television series Werewolf

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James Darren
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James William Ercolani, known by his stage name James Darren, is an Italian-American television and film actor, television director, and singer. Born in Philadelphia, on June 8,1936, Darren began his career as a teen idol, having been discovered by talent agent, Darren later described it, I was studying acting in New York City with Stella Adler. Id been studying with her for a couple of years, I went to see some agents in New York and they said in order to get work, you need to have photographs taken. As I was walking down Broadway after class one day, I saw this photographers studio, I went in and had pictures taken. I went back to look at the proofs and his secretary and she said I know someone you should meet. She set up a meeting between me and Joyce Selznick, who worked for Screen Gems, I went down to 1650 Broadway, the Brill Building. On my way to a meeting with Joyce, we just happened to get on the elevator at the same time and we got off at the same floor and walked to the same office. Joyce brought me over to Columbia Pictures about a week later, a few weeks later Darren was cast in the lead of Rumble on the Docks. This got him a lot of fan mail and the studio cast him in The Brothers Rico and he notably played Moondoggie in Gidget in 1959, and recorded a string of pop hits for Colpix Records, the biggest of which was Goodbye Cruel World. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc, another sizeable hit was Her Royal Majesty. He is also featured in one of the Scopitone series of pop music video jukebox films, twice, in 1959 and 1961, Darren played teen idols on episodes of The Donna Reed Show. Darrens role in the 1961 World War II film The Guns of Navarone was an attempt to out of his teen image. Darren, The people handling my career at that point didnt really take advantage of it, I did another Gidget film which I hated and I didnt want to do it. I thought that Id be doing those for the rest of my life, I mean, here we are today talking about Navarone. When youre in a film like that, it lasts forever. In 1963 he signed a seven picture deal with Universal, starting with The Lively Set and he was the singing voice of Yogi Bear in the 1964 animated film, Hey There, Its Yogi Bear. On the song Ven-e, Ven-o, Ven-a, prior to that, he was the singing and speaking voice of Jimmy Darrock on an episode of The Flintstones. He then achieved success co-starring as impulsive scientist and adventurer Tony Newman in the science fiction television series, in the 1970s, Darren appeared as a celebrity panelist on Match Game

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David Hemmings
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David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor, as well as a film and television director and producer. He founded also the Hemdale Film Corporation in 1967 and he is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was a boy soprano appearing in operatic roles, David Hemmings was born in Guildford, in the county of Surrey, to a biscuit salesman father. Most notably, Hemmings created the role of Miles in Brittens chamber opera Turn of the Screw and his intimate, yet innocent, relationship with Britten is described in John Bridcuts book Brittens Children. Hemmings had earlier played the role in Brittens The Little Sweep. Britten was furious, waved Hemmings away, and never had any contact with him. Hemmings then moved on to acting and directing in film and he made his first film appearance in the drama film The Rainbow Jacket, but he first became well known as a pin-up and film star in the mid-1960s. Antonioni, who detested the Method way of acting, sought to find a young face for the lead in his next production. Then, he found Hemmings, at the acting in small stage theatre in London, although at their first meeting, Antonioni told Hemmings. Hemmings directed the drama film The 14, which won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and he appeared in the Italian giallo film Profondo Rosso directed by Dario Argento. In 1977 he appeared as Eddy in the film Islands in the Stream and he directed David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich in the drama film Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo. The film was received, with Bowie describing it as my 32 Elvis Presley films rolled into one. Hemmings directed the horror film The Survivor, based on James Herberts 1976 novel of the name, starring Robert Powell. He once joked, People thought I was dead, I was just directing The A-Team. He directed the thriller film Race for the Yankee Zephyr, which stars Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, Hemmings also directed the puzzle-contest video Money Hunt, The Mystery of the Missing Link. He directed the television film The Key to Rebecca, an adaptation of Ken Folletts 1980 novel of the same name and he also briefly served as a producer on the NBC crime-drama television series Stingray. Hemmings played a cop in the docudrama film Beyond Reasonable Doubt about Arthur Allan Thomas, a New Zealand farmer jailed for the murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe. In later years, he had roles including appearing as Cassius in the epic film Gladiator, with Russell Crowe, as well as appearing in the drama film Last Orders

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John Ashton (actor)
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John David Ashton is an American actor, best known for his roles in the films Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton attended Defiance College in Ohio and is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre and he attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton has made appearances in both television and feature films. He played Willie Joe Garr on several episodes of Dallas, Ashton also appeared in an episode of Columbo, Negative Reaction and in episode 5 of Police Squad. Rendezvous at Big Gulch, as one of the henchmen who attacked the locksmith shop and his early film credits included roles in An Eye for an Eye, Breaking Away, Borderline, Honky Tonk Freeway, Last Resort and King Kong Lives. Ashton also starred as Detective Sergeant John Taggart in the first two installments of the Beverly Hills Cop trilogy, alongside Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold. He appeared as Eric Stoltzs characters father in the 1987 John Hughes-penned comedy-drama Some Kind of Wonderful, in 1988, he co-starred in the action-comedy Midnight Run as a rival bounty hunter to Robert De Niros character. Ashton has stated that, given the proper arrangements, he would like to reprise his roles in the rumored Beverly Hills Cop IV and he guest-starred opposite Beverly Hills Cop co-star Ronny Cox in an episode of Matthew Perrys 2011 series, Mr Sunshine. Ashton married his first wife Victoria Marie Runn in 1968 and they divorced in 1970 and he married his second wife Bridget Baker-Ashton in 1976 and they divorced in 2001. Ashton has two children—one by each of his ex-wives, Ashton currently resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is co-host of the Ashton and Davis Show on 870 ESPN radio. Official website John Ashton at the Internet Movie Database

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Eddie Money
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Eddie Money was born Edward Mahoney into a large Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn and raised in Plainedge on Long Island. His father, grandfather, and brother were members of the New York City Police Department, as his interest in music intensified, he eventually ended his law enforcement career in favor of becoming a full-time musician. He moved to Berkeley, California, and became a regular at city clubs, in the late 1970s, he charted with singles such as Baby Hold On and Two Tickets to Paradise. Money made a comeback in 1986 and returned to the rock spotlight with the album Cant Hold Back. The albums Ronnie Spector duet Take Me Home Tonight reached the Top 10, Money followed the album with another Top 10 hit, Walk on Water, but his Top 40 career ended following the #21 placement of Ill Get By in 1992. During the 1990s and 2000s, Money continued to release compilation albums plus with albums featuring new material. He joined a 12-step program in 2001 and has said of his addiction that he came to the realization that I didnt really need for my quick wit. Today, he tours regularly, often accompanied by other prominent rock acts from the 1970s and 1980s. He played himself in season 4, episode 23 of the sitcom, since 1992, Money has traditionally opened the summer concert season for DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. In 2010, Money performed a medley of his hit singles during the performance at the Liberty Bowl. In 2012, he appeared in a GEICO insurance commercial, in which he owns a travel agency where he sings Two Tickets to Paradise to a family who wants tickets for a vacation, Money has been married to his wife Laurie since 1989. They have four sons and one daughter, Jesse Money, studio albums Eddie Money Life for the Taking Playing for Keeps No Control Wheres the Party. Cant Hold Back Nothing to Lose Right Here Love and Money Ready Eddie Wanna Go Back Official website Eddie Money at AllMusic Eddie Money at VH1 Eddie Money at Rolling Stone at the Wayback Machine

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John Ashley (actor)
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John Ashley was an American actor, producer and singer. Born John Atchley, he was reared in Oklahoma and attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, while a student, Ashley visited a friend in California and accompanied him to the set of The Conqueror. He was seen by John Wayne who was impressed with the mans good looks. Ashley broke into films when he accompanied a girlfriend to an audition at American International Pictures for a part in Dragstrip Girl, lou Rusoff asked him if he wanted to audition as well and he ended up getting the part. AIP signed him to a four-picture non-exclusive contract expected to run for two years, Ashley was a particular favorite of the daughters of James H. Nicholson, one of the main figures at American International Pictures, who always hoped he would become a big star. Ashley unsuccessfully auditioned for the lead in I Was a Teenage Werewolf and his second role for the studio, Motorcycle Gang, was almost identical to Dragstrip Girl. By this stage Ashley had been drafted and production was held up until he completed his basic training, AIP wanted Ashley to make a film called Hot Rod Girl. He was offered a part on the TV series Matinee Theatre, however, Samuel Arkoff of AIP refused, and got an injunction preventing Ashley from appearing on TV. I never really forgave him for that, said Ashley and he also had a semi-recurring role as one of Ellie Mays suitors on The Beverly Hillbillies. and a strong part in Hud, perhaps his most acclaimed film. In 1959, Ashley was cast in the episode Elkton Lake Feud of the western television series, Frontier Doctor. In the story line, two families for years quarrel over the ownership of the lake, and only three individuals remain when a judge hands down the critical decision, in addition to acting, Ashley also made a number of records in the late 1950s. In the late 1960s, Ashley received an offer to make a film in the Philippines, as his first marriage had just broken up, he was keen to get out of the country and accepted. He made Brides of Blood for producer Eddie Romero, then returned to Oklahoma where he ran some theaters, a distributor friend of Ashleys found success screening Brides of Blood and suggested that Ashley return to the Philippines to make additional similar movies. Ashley agreed and returned there to film The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Beast of Blood as an actor and this began a long-running association with the Philippines and producer Eddie Romero. Ashley eventually started financing these movies, as well as acting as Philippines liaison for movies like The Big Doll House and Apocalypse Now and he then returned to the US in order to concentrate on his theater interests and move into American production work. Ashley went on to such series as The A-Team, NBCs The Quest. His voice can be heard as the narrator in the title sequence of The A-Team during the shows first four seasons. Ashley married actress Deborah Walley in 1962 and they had one son, Anthony Ashley, before they divorced

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Single-camera setup
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The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. In this setup, each of the shots and camera angles is taken using the same camera. Choices can then be made during the editing process for when in the scene to use each shot. This also then allows parts of the scene to be removed if it is felt that the scene is too long, in practice, sometimes two cameras shooting from the same angle are used, one to capture a medium shot, the other a close-up during the same take. Unlike film producers, who almost always opt for single-camera shooting, single-camera is mostly reserved for prime-time dramas, made-for-TV movies, music videos and commercial advertisements. Soap operas, talk shows, game shows, most reality television series, Multiple-camera shooting is the only way that an ensemble of actors presenting a single performance before a live audience can be recorded from multiple perspectives. Also for standard, dialogue-driven domestic situation comedies, the multi-camera technique, situation comedies may potentially be shot in either multiple- or single-camera modes. Several comedy series of the era also use of feature film techniques. These effects were created using editing and optical printing techniques, in the case of Get Smart, the single-camera technique also allowed the series to present fast-paced and tightly-edited fight and action sequences reminiscent of the spy dramas that it parodied. Single-camera comedies were also prevalent into the early 1970s, with its large cast, varied locations, and seriocomic tone, the TV series M*A*S*H was shot using single-camera style. Happy Days began in 1974 as a series, before switching to the multi-camera setup in its second season. Unlike single-camera sitcoms of the past, nearly all contemporary comedies shot in this manner are produced without a laugh track, list of single-camera sitcoms Multiple-camera setup Tapeless camcorder

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Columbia Pictures Television
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Columbia Pictures Television was launched in 1974 by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. The second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems, the studio changed its name on May 6,1974 and was suggested by David Gerber. As the successor in interest to Screen Gems, it assumed productions of the soap operas Days of Our Lives and The Young. Its first produced series is the sitcom Thats My Mama and it was originally slated to be a Screen Gems production. On June 13,1977, CPT acquired worldwide rights to Barney Miller and Fish from Danny Arnold, Quinn Martins Barnaby Jones. On June 27, CPT bought domestic distribution rights to four series made by Spelling-Goldberg Productions including S. W. A. T, starsky & Hutch, Charlies Angels, and Family from Metromedia Producers Corporation. From 1978 to 1986, CPT co-produced series with Spelling-Goldberg including Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart, on February 19,1979, CPT acquired TOY Productions, whose output included Whats Happening. and Carter Country. On August 13,1981, CPT acquired the assets of Time-Life Films. In May 1982, Columbia Pictures acquired Spelling-Goldberg Productions, the 1980s brought significant changes to CPT. On June 22,1982, The Coca-Cola Company bought Columbia Pictures for $750 million, the same year, CPT acquired distribution rights to Benson. On June 18,1985, Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio sold their company, Embassy Communications, Coke also made plans to spin-off Embassy Pictures and Embassy Home Entertainment. Under Coca-Colas ownership, Embassy saw success with 227 and Married, the same year, Columbia and LBS Communications launched Whats Happening Now. in first-run syndication. The show was a sequel to the 1970s ABC sitcom Whats Happening, major changes took place in 1986. On May 5, Coke acquired Merv Griffin Enterprises, producer of the series, Dance Fever, The Merv Griffin Show. Also on the year on August 28, CPT acquired Danny Arnolds Four D Productions. Coca-Cola Telecommunications also took some programs that were or slated to be distributed under the Columbia Pictures Television banner including Whats Happening Now, the Real Ghostbusters, Dinosaucers, and Punky Brewster as well as taking the US distribution rights of Hardcastle and McCormick from Colex. During the fall of 1986, the sitcom Designing Women began a successful run on CBS. The same year, Tri-Star Pictures formed Tri-Star Television and produced the short-lived series Downtown, Tri-Star produced more series in 1987, Take Five, Nothing in Common, My Two Dads, Werewolf, and Buck James

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Universal Television
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Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network. It was formerly known as Revue Studios, MCA/Universal, NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television Studio, both NBC Studios and Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Media Studios. Revue Productions was founded in 1943 by MCA to produce live radio shows, Revue was re-launched as MCAs television production subsidiary in 1950. The partnership of NBC and Revue extends as far back as September 6,1950, with the television broadcast of Armour Theatre, MCA bought the Universal Studios lot in 1958 and was renamed Revue Studios. Following its merger with Decca Records, the then-parent of Universal Pictures, during the early years of television, Revue was responsible for producing and/or distributing many television classics. The most noteworthy included Leave It to Beaver, which ran for one season on CBS before going to ABC from 1958 until 1963. It produced Bachelor Father, for Bachelor Productions, Edmond OBriens syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, another of its offerings was the 52-episode Crusader, the first Brian Keith series, which ran on CBS 1955–1956. Also McHales Navy was produced by Revue from 1962 to 1966, in December 1958 MCA/Revue purchased Universal Studioss 367 acre backlot to produce television series, then leased it back to Universal for a million dollars a year for a decade. Wagon Train was the only Revue-produced TV show ever to finish an American television season in first place, NBC Productions was founded in 1947 by RCA. In 1996, the company was renamed NBC Studios, in 2004, NBC Studios was merged with Universal Network Television to form NBC Universal Television Studio. MCA TV was founded in 1951, several years before parent MCAs purchase of the US branch of Decca Records, for more than four decades, it was one of the most active syndicators of television programming. MCA Television and Paramount Domestic Television had formed Premier Advertiser Sales, as a possible outgrowth of this sales joint venture, MCA and Paramount began plans for a new network, Premier Program Service. MCA Television Entertainment was formed in 1987 and it primarily dealt with made-for-TV movies and series like Dream On that were made for cable networks like HBO. Like MCA TV, in 1996 it was renamed Universal Television Entertainment, EMKA, Ltd. is the holding company responsible for a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount Pictures sound library. As an official part of the Universal Pictures library, they are part of the television unit. The first incarnation of Universal Television was reincorporated from Revue Productions in 1966,4 years after MCA bought Universal Pictures, uni TV also co-produced many shows with Jack Webbs Mark VII Limited such as Emergency. Adam-12 and a revival of the 1951 series Dragnet. I, which received critical acclaim and several TV movie spin-offs after their cancellations. In 1990, MCA/Uni TV began the Law & Order franchise, in 1996, MCA was reincorporated as Universal Studios

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Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures, with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, in 2009, SPT collaborated with Jeff Arnold and Dr. Additional co-founders in Sharecare include Harpo Productions, Discovery Communications, as of 2015, its the worlds largest television production and distribution company measured by library and revenue. SPTs history goes back to 1947, when Pioneer Telefilms was founded by Ralph Cohn, whose father Jack, the present name was given to reflect the Sony brand on September 16,2002. On November 24,2004, Sony Pictures Television International formed a joint venture called Huaso with Hua Long Film Digital Production Co. Ltd. of the China Film Group in Beijing. From 2005 to 2006, SPT was the distributor of MGMs TV and film library, in 2006, SPT joined forces with Program Partners to handle advertising sales and distribution rights to foreign television series in the U. S. mostly shows produced in Canada. The same year, SPT signed Embassy Row a three-year deal for new shows, game show revivals. In summer 2007, SPT introduced The Minisode Network, a channel for MySpace airing shows from the 1960s to early 2000s from four to five minutes. In winter 2007, The Minisode Network was also added to a few more sites like AOL TV, YouTube, and its sister site Crackle. On March 27,2008, SPT International acquired a minority stake in the new production company Gogglebox Entertainment, on June 4,2008, SPT bought Hilversum, Netherlands-based production company 2waytraffic, international holders of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. On January 14,2009, SPT acquired Embassy Row, a television, fourteen days later, SPTI acquired a 50% stake in Colombian independent TV production company Teleset. Three months later on April 1, Sony Pictures Entertainment consolidated its US, Sony Pictures Television International now operates in-name-only. On September 25,2011, Andrea Wong was tapped to head the international television production division of Sony Pictures Television to oversee all international businesses for the studio. On January 19,2012, SPT acquired Dolphin Broadcast Services Ltd. SPT also took a majority stake in Dolphins advertising sales business. On March 1,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in UK independent production company Silver River Productions, on May 31, SPT launched Sony Movie Channel and AXN in Canada in partnership with Hollywood Suite. Two of Hollywood Suites networks, Hollywood Festival re-launched as Sony Movie Channel, on August 23,2012, SPT acquired a majority stake in Left Bank Pictures, a UK production company founded by Andy Harries, Francis Hopkinson, and Marigo Kehoe. On August 22,2013, Sony Pictures Television acquired a majority stake in Simon Andraes new production company Scarlet Media, however, two months later, Andrae dropped his plans for Scarlet and was tapped to become executive vice-president of alternative entertainment for Fox

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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Stereo
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STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched in 2006 into orbits around the Sun that cause them to pull farther ahead of. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections, the apogee reached the Moons orbit. On December 15,2006, on the orbit, the pair swung by the Moon for a gravity assist. The B spacecraft encountered the Moon again on the same orbital revolution on January 21,2007, Spacecraft B entered a heliocentric orbit outside the Earths orbit. Spacecraft A will take 347 days to complete one revolution of the Sun, the A spacecraft/Sun/Earth angle will increase at 21.650 degree/year. The B spacecraft/Sun/Earth angle will change −21.999 degrees per year.8 km/s and their current locations are shown here. Over time, the STEREO spacecraft will continue to separate from each other at a rate of approximately 44 degrees per year. There are no positions for the spacecraft. They achieved 90 degrees separation on January 24,2009, a known as quadrature. This is of interest because the mass ejections seen from the side on the limb by one spacecraft can potentially be observed by the in situ particle experiments of the other spacecraft. As they passed through Earths Lagrangian points L4 and L5, in late 2009, on February 6,2011, the two spacecraft were exactly 180 degrees apart from each other, allowing the entire Sun to be seen at once for the first time. Even as the angle increases, the addition of an Earth-based view, e. g. from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, in 2015, contact was lost for several months when the STEREO spacecraft passed behind the Sun. They will then start to approach Earth again, with closest approach sometime in 2023 and they will not be recaptured into Earth orbit. On October 1,2014, contact was lost with STEREO-B during a reset to test the crafts automation. The team originally thought the spacecraft had begun to spin, decreasing the amount of power that could be generated by the solar panels, NASA used its Deep Space Network, first weekly and later monthly, to try to re-establish communications. After a silence of 22 months, contact was regained at 22,27 UTC on August 21,2016, when the Deep Space Network established a lock on STEREO-B for 2.4 hours. Engineers will work to develop software to fix the spacecraft, further, while the spacecraft was power positive at the time of contact, its orientation will drift and power levels will fall

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Brandon Tartikoff
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Brandon Tartikoff was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom Punky Brewster, he named the character after a girl he had a crush on in school. Punky Brewsters pet dog Brandon was named after Tartikoff and he was also involved in the creation of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine and Beggars and Choosers. Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, while attending Yale, Tartikoff worked as an account executive and sales manager for WNHC-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as in Hartford, Connecticut. Tartikoff spent vacations in Los Angeles looking for a job in network television, after graduating from Yale, he took a series of jobs in advertising and local television, including WLS-TV in Chicago, Illinois. Tartikoff was hired as an executive at ABC in 1976. One year later, he moved to NBC, Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from Fred Silverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBCs entertainment division, when Tartikoff took over, NBC was in last place behind ABC and CBS, and the very future of the network was in doubt. A writers strike was looming, affiliates were defecting, mostly to ABC, johnny Carson was reportedly in talks to move his landmark late-night talk show to ABC. The entire cast and writers of Saturday Night Live had left that late-night sketch-comedy series, by 1982, Tartikoff and his new superior, the highly regarded former producer Grant Tinker, slowly but surely turned the networks fortunes around. Tartikoff wrote a memo that simply read MTV cops, and later presented the memo to series creator Anthony Yerkovich. The result was Miami Vice, which became an icon of 1980s pop culture, knight Rider was inspired by a perceived lack of leading men who could act, with Tartikoff suggesting that a talking car could fill in the gaps in any leading mans acting abilities. During the casting process of Family Ties, Tartikoff was unexcited about Michael J. Fox for the role of Alex P. Keaton, however, the shows producer, Gary David Goldberg, insisted until Tartikoff relented, saying, Go ahead if you insist. But Im telling you, this is not the kind of face youll ever see on a lunch box, love and Kisses, Michael J. Tartikoff kept the lunch box on display in his office. Jerry Seinfeld credited Tartikoff with saving Seinfeld from cancellation during its first four years of struggling ratings, johnny Carson broke the news of his retirement in February 1991 to Tartikoff at the Grille in Beverly Hills. For several days only Tartikoff and NBC Chairman Bob Wright knew of the planned retirement, during his time at NBC, he made appearances in several of the networks shows. During his 1983 appearance on Saturday Night Live, one skit featured Tartikoff in a leather ensemble. Be There was NBCs slogan during the 1983–84 season, Tartikoff appeared as himself on episodes of Night Court, Night Stand with Dick Dietrick and ALF, and in the background of one of the final episodes of Cheers

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Lethal Weapon
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Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner, produced by Joel Silver, and written by Shane Black. It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Gary Busey, the film was released on March 6,1987. Upon its release, Lethal Weapon grossed over $120 million against a budget of $15 million. It spawned a franchise that includes three sequels and a television series, LAPD Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh, shortly after his 50th birthday, is partnered with Sergeant Martin Riggs, a transfer from narcotics. Murtaugh and Riggs quickly find themselves feuding with each other, autopsy reports show Amanda to have been poisoned with drain cleaner, making the case a possible homicide. Hunsaker tells Murtaugh that he was concerned about his daughters involvement in drugs, prostitution, and pornography, Murtaugh and Riggs go to see Amandas pimp, but find a drug lab on the premises, leading to a shootout. Riggs kills the pimp and saves the life of Murtaugh, who starts to tolerate his new partner, though the case seems closed, Riggs is aware that the only witness to Amandas apparent suicide was Dixie, another prostitute who was working away from her normal streets. They go to see her at her home, but it explodes as they approach it, Hunsaker had been laundering the money, but wanted to get out, and when McAllister found out hed contacted Murtaugh, the general had Amanda killed. As they talk, Joshua arrives in a helicopter and kills Hunsaker, shadow Company attempts to kill Riggs in a drive-by shooting, but he is saved by a bullet-proof vest. Murtaugh and Riggs fake his death to gain the upper hand, shadow Company later kidnaps Murtaughs daughter Rianne and demand Murtaugh turn himself over to them for her return. Murtaugh and Riggs plan an ambush at the exchange at El Mirage Lake with Riggs providing sniper support and their cover blown, McAllister and Joshua attempt to escape separately. Joshua manages to get away, but McAllister ends up crashing his car on Hollywood Boulevard and is killed when hand grenades in the car detonate, Murtaugh and Riggs race to Murtaughs home, knowing Joshua will be after his family. They arrive in time to him, and Riggs beats him in a violent fist fight on the front lawn. As officers arrive to take Joshua away, he breaks free and grabs a gun, after visiting his wifes grave, Riggs spends Christmas with the Murtaughs, having become best friends with Murtaugh and bonding with the rest of the family. Riggs also gives Murtaugh a symbolic gift, an unfired hollow-point bullet which he had been saving to commit suicide, as he does not need it anymore. Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh Gary Busey as Joshua Mitchell Ryan as Gen. Stephanie Woods Ed ORoss as Mendez Lycia Naff as Dixie Jimmie F. The protagonists would be everymen policemen, guys shuffling in a town like Los Angeles searching for something noble as justice when theyre just guys in washed, according to Black, his original first draft of the script was very different and much darker than the final film. It was 140 pages long and both the plot and characters were different, and action scenes were much bigger

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Pete Rose
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Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr. also known by his nickname Charlie Hustle, is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1986, Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time MLB leader in hits, games played, at-bats, singles, and outs. Rose won both of his Gold Gloves as an outfielder in 1969 and 1970, in 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame formally voted to ban those on the permanently ineligible list from induction, after previously excluding such players by informal agreement among voters. In 2004, after years of denial, Rose admitted to betting on baseball and on, but not against. The issue of Roses possible reinstatement and election to the Hall of Fame remains a contentious one throughout baseball, on June 22,2015, ESPN concluded an investigation and determined that Rose bet on baseball while still a player-manager, from 1984 to 1986. The investigation also made public the existence of records of bets made by Rose on baseball, in 2016, Rose was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Rose was born April 14,1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of four born to Harry Francis Pete. He was a member of the Order of DeMolay as a young boy and he played baseball and football at Western Hills High School. Although Rose was small for his age, he earned the starting running back position on his football team. When he was not promoted to the varsity team in his sophomore year, Rose was dejected. At the end of the year, Roses teachers decreed he would have to attend summer school or be held back. His father decided it would be better for Pete to repeat a year of school than miss a summer playing baseball and it would also give Pete an extra year to mature physically. He played catcher, second base and shortstop and compiled a.626 batting average and this would have been the pinnacle of Roses baseball career if not for the help of his uncle Buddy Bloebaum. Bloebaum was a Bird dog scout for the Reds and he pleaded the case for his nephew, the Reds, who had recently traded away a number of prospects who turned out to be very good, decided to take a chance on Pete. Upon his graduation from school, Rose signed a professional contract. During a spring training game against the Chicago White Sox in 1963, during another spring training game against the New York Yankees, Whitey Ford gave him the derisive nickname Charlie Hustle after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk. Despite the manner in which Ford intended it, Rose adopted that nickname as a badge of honor, Rose made his major league debut on April 8,1963 against the Pittsburgh Pirates and drew a walk. After going 0-for-11, Rose got his first Major League hit on April 13 and he hit.273 for the year and won the National League Rookie of the Year Award, collecting 17 of 20 votes

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John Pappas
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John Pappas is an American actor, playwright and former comic who has appeared on television and in film since the 1970s. Pappas is best known for his role as Pappas on the television series Hardball. Pappas is also known for his role of Leo Sullivan on the NBC Soap Opera Days of Our Lives. In 2001 Pappas returned to Days of Our Lives in another recurring role of a convict named Buddy, Pappas is an award winning actor receiving a 1990 best actor award from the L. A. Weekly, for his performance in Gilbert Girion’s BAD COUNTRY. He received 2 Drama-Logue awards, one in 1989 and another in 1988, Born in Oakland, California, Pappas has lived in Los Angeles since 1974, for the most part in Hollywood. He attended Grant High School in Oakland and San Francisco State University, early in his career, Pappas appeared on variety shows including The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show and Dinah Shore, as half of the comedy team Pappas and Diederich. At the Boarding House, the duo opened for John Kay, other opening act gigs include, Sister Sledge, at The Roxy, San Diego, Franklyn Ajaye, at The Punchline, S. F. and Don McClean at the Catamaran, Mission Bay, San Diego. Pappas was the original Phil Hartman stalker on the Goofy Ball episode of News Radio and his scene with the late Mr. Hartman was re shot with comedian Dennis Miller. He is the actor in the first Tremors who gets dragged over a cliff and eaten alive by the monster worms yet returns as a different character in Tremors 3. Hooker - Ross The Last Resort - Flour Delivery Man America 2-Night - Born Again Christian Surfer The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - Bartender Dinah. - Himself The Merv Griffin Show - Himself The Mike Douglas Show - Himself In theatre, Pappas originated the role of James in ETTA JENKS, the play is published by DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE INC. and credits the original cast members who created the roles. Mr. Pappas also originated the role of GARY in John Steppling’s THE DREAM COAST, which was performed as a workshop at The Mark Taper Forum’s New Theatre For Now,1985 “In the Works festival. ”The play had an additional run in 1986 at The Taper Too. In December 2001 Pappas received a review from Paul Birchall for his work in TRIBE OF JUDAH, Pappas currently lives in Long Beach with his wife Caren and their two dogs Youngster and Delilah. He is an actor, known for Checkers, Hardball, Days Of Our Lives, Tremors, Tremors 3, Back to Perfection and Police Story, The Watch Commander The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie

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Honus Wagner
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Johannes Peter Honus Wagner was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the most in National League history with Tony Gwynn and he also led the league in slugging six times, and in stolen bases five times. Wagner was nicknamed The Flying Dutchman due to his superb speed and this name was a nod to the popular folk-tale made into a famous opera by another Wagner. In 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Wagner as one of the first five members and he received the second-highest vote total, behind Ty Cobb and tied with Babe Ruth. Cobb himself called Wagner maybe the greatest star ever to take the diamond, in addition, Wagner is the featured player of one of the rarest and most valuable baseball cards in the world. Wagner was born to German immigrants Peter and Katheryn Wagner in the borough of Chartiers, in what is now Carnegie, Wagner was one of nine children. As a child, he was called Hans by his mother, Hans was also an alternate nickname during his major league career. Wagner dropped out of school at age 12 to help his father, in their free time, he and his brothers played sandlot baseball and developed their skills to such an extent that three of his brothers went on to become professionals as well. Wagners older brother, Albert Butts Wagner, who had a major league career himself, is often credited with getting Honus his first tryout. Butts persuaded his manager to take a look at his younger brother, following his brother, Wagner trained to be a barber before becoming successful in baseball. In 1916, Wagner married Bessie Baine Smith, and the couple would have three daughters, Elva Katrina, Betty Baine, and Virginia Mae, Honus brother Albert Butts Wagner was considered the ballplayer of the family. Albert suggested Honus in 1895 when his Inter-State League team was in need of help, Wagner would play for five teams in that first year, in three different leagues over the course of 80 games. In 1896 Edward Barrow, from the Wheeling, West Virginia, team that Wagner was playing on, decided to take Honus with him to his next team, the Paterson Silk Sox. Barrow proved to be a talent scout, as Wagner could play wherever he was needed. Wagner would hit.313 for Paterson in 1896 and.375 in 74 games in 1897, recognizing that Wagner should be playing at the highest level, Barrow contacted the Louisville Colonels, who had finished last in the National League in 1896 with a record of 38-93. They were doing better in 1897 when Barrow persuaded club president Barney Dreyfuss, club secretary Harry Pulliam, Pulliam, though, persuaded Dreyfuss and Clarke to take a chance on him. Wagner debuted with Louisville on July 19, and hit.338 in 61 games, by his second season, Wagner was already one of the best hitters in the National League although he came up short a percentage point from finishing the season at.300. Following the 1899 season, the NL contracted from twelve to eight teams, along with Wagner, owner Barney Dreyfuss, who had purchased half ownership in the Pirates, took many of his other top players with him to Pittsburgh

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in the mid-1990s to host a website for the companys technology-related TV shows. One of these shows was titled TV. com, the program, highlighting the best of the Internet for new and casual computer users, aired in U. S. syndication. CNET then acquired TV Tome, a television database. TV. com was launched a few months after that acquisition on June 1,2005, many of the features and content from the original TV Tome site were maintained in the new TV. com site. On May 15,2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, TV. com continually looked at innovating the television-viewing experience by incorporating it with technology, as seen with the creation of WatchList. This service offered personalized TV listings influenced by user actions and social media, TV Tome was an American website devoted to documenting English-language television shows and their production. It was run by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions, the site was founded by John Nestoriak III. The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides, in addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a forum for each television series, with information regarding episodes, their interpretation, and general discussions. A spin-off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003, a video game tome and a music tome were originally planned as well, but such plans were abandoned with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome by CNET. On April 22,2005, TV Tome officially announced its acquisition by CNET, CNET reportedly bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV. com domain, a preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1,2005 and on June 13,2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV. com with an entirely new layout. TV. com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, full episodes, clip length videos, discussion forums, episode guides may include synopsis information, a recap, credits, notes, trivia, quotes, and images provided by the networks. All textual information in the guides is user-generated, after a user earns a certain number of points, s/he becomes an editor for the guide and can moderate user submissions. The site provides actor guides that include actor bios, credits, trivia, like show pages, users can become editors for these guides after earning points by providing sourced content. The sites mobile application allows users to video content, including clips and full length episodes

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Epguides
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Epguides is a website dedicated to English language radio and television shows. In 1999, it was recommended by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh in the edition of their book. Soon after, the name was changed to epguides and it was moved to a separate domain name. It is under the name that the website was again recommended in the eighth edition published in 2003. Epguides has subsequently developed information-exchange partnerships with other fan-created episode guide websites such as TV Tome, each epguides television show page consists of basic information about the show, starting with a picture of the cast and a list of the main actors with links to IMDb. It also displays the number of episodes and episode length, at the top and bottom there is an information bar consisting of links for further information on the show. In between is a list of the titles of the episodes in order with air dates Epguides relationship original with TV Tome was established in June 2000, subsequently, TV Tome merged into TV. com. In 2005, TV. com changed the format of its episode guides, from 1999 on, epguides was recommended as the principal episode guide website in the FAQ of the primary Usenet newsgroup devoted to television, rec. arts. tv. Official website TV. com Epguides subsite specifically for Chicago-specific shows such as Son of Svengoolie, Family Classics, etc

Rob Bowman (filmmaker)
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Rob Stanton Bowman is an American film director and producer. He grew up around film and television production, and developed an interest in the field because of the work of his father and he is an executive producer and director for the comedy-drama Castle. Bowman has directed four films, Airborne, The X-Files, Reign of Fire. Bowman grew up around

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Rob Bowman

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Andrew Marlowe and Rob Bowman on the set of Castle.

James Darren
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James William Ercolani, known by his stage name James Darren, is an Italian-American television and film actor, television director, and singer. Born in Philadelphia, on June 8,1936, Darren began his career as a teen idol, having been discovered by talent agent, Darren later described it, I was studying acting in New York City with Stella Adler. Id

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Darren, at left, with Lee Meriwether and Robert Colbert in The Time Tunnel, 1966.

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James Darren with Gloria Terlitsky and son

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Evy Norlund and James Darren on their honeymoon in Rome in 1960

David Hemmings
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David Edward Leslie Hemmings was an English film, theatre and television actor, as well as a film and television director and producer. He founded also the Hemdale Film Corporation in 1967 and he is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was

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David Hemmings (1976)

John Ashton (actor)
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John David Ashton is an American actor, best known for his roles in the films Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Ashton attended Defiance College in Ohio and is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre and he attended Enfield High School in Enfield, Connecticut. Ashton has made appea

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Ashton in 2006.

Eddie Money
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Eddie Money was born Edward Mahoney into a large Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn and raised in Plainedge on Long Island. His father, grandfather, and brother were members of the New York City Police Department, as his interest in music intensified, he eventually ended his law enforcement career in favor of becoming a full-time musician. He moved

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Money performing at GateCon in 2008

John Ashley (actor)
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John Ashley was an American actor, producer and singer. Born John Atchley, he was reared in Oklahoma and attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, while a student, Ashley visited a friend in California and accompanied him to the set of The Conqueror. He was seen by John Wayne who was impressed with the m

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Ashley in 1962

Single-camera setup
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The single-camera setup, or single-camera mode of production, also known as Portable Single Camera, is a method of filmmaking and video production. In this setup, each of the shots and camera angles is taken using the same camera. Choices can then be made during the editing process for when in the scene to use each shot. This also then allows parts

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Diagram showing a single-camera setup.

Columbia Pictures Television
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Columbia Pictures Television was launched in 1974 by Columbia Pictures as an American television production and distribution studio. The second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems, the studio changed its name on May 6,1974 and was suggested by David Gerber. As the successor in interest to Screen Gems, it assumed production

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Columbia Pictures Television, Inc.

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Primary businesses

Universal Television
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Universal Television is the television production subsidiary of the NBCUniversal Television Group and, by extension, the production arm of the NBC television network. It was formerly known as Revue Studios, MCA/Universal, NBC Studios, NBC Universal Television Studio, both NBC Studios and Universal Network Television are predecessors of Universal Me

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Universal Television

Sony Pictures Television
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Sony Pictures Television is an American television production and distribution studio. Based in Culver City, California, it is a division of Sony Pictures, with Children, Designing Women, Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Community, Rules of Engagement, Breaking Bad and The Blacklist. The company also produces Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, in 2009, SP

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Sony Pictures Television Inc.

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Primary businesses

NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the

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The Comcast Building in New York City (or the GE Building, originally the RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.

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National Broadcasting Company

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Radio City West was located at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.

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Entrance at the GE Building.

Stereo
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STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched in 2006 into orbits around the Sun that cause them to pull farther ahead of. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections, the apogee reached the Moons orbit. On December 15,2006, on the orbit, the pair swung by t

Brandon Tartikoff
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Brandon Tartikoff was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom Punky Brewster, he named the character after a girl he had a crush on in school. Punky Brewsters pet dog Brandon was named after Tartikoff and he was also involved in the creation of Star Trek, Deep Sp

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Tartikoff at the 1988 Emmy Awards

Lethal Weapon
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Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film directed by Richard Donner, produced by Joel Silver, and written by Shane Black. It stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Darlene Love, Ebonie Smith, Gary Busey, the film was released on March 6,1987. Upon its release, Lethal Weapon grossed over $120 million against a budget of $15 millio

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Theatrical release poster

Pete Rose
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Peter Edward Pete Rose Sr. also known by his nickname Charlie Hustle, is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1986, Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time MLB leader in hits, games played, at-bats, singles, and outs. Rose won both of his Gold Gloves as an outfielder in 1969 a

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Pete Rose in Las Vegas, 2008

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Rose walks onto the field with the Cincinnati Reds

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Pete Rose at bat during the Big Red Machine years

John Pappas
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John Pappas is an American actor, playwright and former comic who has appeared on television and in film since the 1970s. Pappas is best known for his role as Pappas on the television series Hardball. Pappas is also known for his role of Leo Sullivan on the NBC Soap Opera Days of Our Lives. In 2001 Pappas returned to Days of Our Lives in another re

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John Pappas

Honus Wagner
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Johannes Peter Honus Wagner was an American baseball shortstop who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1897 to 1917, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner won eight batting titles, tied for the most in National League history with Tony Gwynn and he also led the league in slugging six times, and in stolen bases five times. W

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Wagner with the Pirates in 1903

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Wagner in 1897

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Wagner in 1910.

IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data

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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in th

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TV.com

Epguides
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Epguides is a website dedicated to English language radio and television shows. In 1999, it was recommended by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh in the edition of their book. Soon after, the name was changed to epguides and it was moved to a separate domain name. It is under the name that the website was again recommended in the eighth edition published i